Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market

Melanie K. Jones (), Kostas Mavromaras, Peter Sloane and Zhang Wei ()
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Melanie K. Jones: Cardiff University
Zhang Wei: University of Adelaide

No 6152, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2008). While we do not find any relationship between work-limiting disability and over-skilling, it appears that there is a positive relationship between work-limiting disability and over-education, which is consistent with disability onset leading to downward occupational movement, at least in relative terms. We find a negative correlation between work-limiting disability and both earnings and job satisfaction. However, there is only evidence of a causal relationship in terms of the latter, where the impact of disability is found to be multifaceted.

Keywords: disability; job satisfaction; earnings; job mismatch (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I0 J2 J24 J3 J31 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2011-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hea, nep-hrm and nep-lab
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Published - published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38 (5), 1221-1246

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